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Venture Capital
• SpaceX is planning an insider share sale that would value the company at about $400 billion, per Bloomberg. Go deeper
🚑 OpenEvidence, a Cambridge, Mass.-based AI medical assistant for doctors, raised a $210m Series B round co-led by Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins. Coatue, Conviction and Thrive also participated. Go deeper
• Gridserve, a British mobile EV charging company, raised £100m in new equity from investors including TPG Rise Climate, Infracapital and Mitsubishi. Go deeper
• Unify, an SF-based provider of go-to-market tech, raised a $40m Series B led by Battery Ventures. OpenAI Startup Fund, Thrive Capital, Emergence Capital, Abstract Ventures, The Cannon Project and Capital49 also participated. Go deeper
• Heron, a New York-based workflow automation company, raised a $16m Series A led by Insight Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, BoxGroup and Flex Capital. Go deeper
• Felt, an Oakland, Calif.-based GIS platform, raised $15m in funding led by Energize Capital. BCV and Footwork also participated. Go deeper
• ParadeDB, a maker of search infrastructure, raised $12m in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures with participation from Y Combinator. paradedb.com
• Callidus Legal AI, a San Francisco-based litigation workflow company, raised $10m in funding led by Cervin Ventures. Go deeper
• Little Sesame, a Washington D.C.-based hummus brand, raised $8.5m of Series A funding led by InvestEco Capital. Watchfire Ventures, Santatera Capital and Beliade Consumer Partners also participated. Go deeper
• Auriga Space, a Garden Grove, Calif.-based electromagnetic hypersonic launch tech maker, raised $4.6m in seed funding led by OTB Ventures. aurigaspace.com
Private Equity
• Almac, backed by Wise Equity, acquired Italian spider lift producer Easy Lift. Go deeper
• The Sterling Group will acquire packing solutions company Precision Concepts International from ONCAP, a private equity platform of Onex Corporations. Go deeper
M&A
• Doorvest, a San Francisco-based real estate investing app, acquired Wreno, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based vendor management platform. Go deeper
• Pronto.ai, a San Francisco-based autonomous vehicle haulage tech developer, acquired SafeAI, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based autonomous heavy equipment company. Go deeper
🚑 Sorcero, a Washington, D.C.-based language intelligence platform, acquired Axiom Health, a San Diego-based medical technology platform. Go deeper
🌎 Synagro Technologies, a Baltimore-based biosolids and organics solutions company, acquired the assets of Dahm Enterprises, a Wonder Lake, Ill.-based biosolids service. Go deeper
• Moose Toys, a Melbourne-based toy manufacturer, acquired Bananagrams, a Providence, R.I.-based games manufacturer and distributor. Go deeper
🚑 Sellers Dorsey, a Philadelphia health care consultancy, acquired DignifiHealth, a Williamson, W.V.-based population health data analytics company. Go deeper
Public Listings
• Figure Technology Solutions, a startup that makes home loans on the blockchain, plans to go public in the fall, co-founder Mike Cagney said. Go deeper
Fundraising
🌎 Clessidra launched Clessidra Capital Partners Green Harvest, a new fund targeting €150m to focus on the Italian agrifood sector. Go deeper
Odds & ends
• Blackstone plans to invest $25b in U.S. data centers and energy generation. Go deeper
It's Personnel
• Anson Tsai is leaving Bank of America to join Piper Sandler's technology investment banking team. Go deeper.
• Andrew Duncan, former global CEO at Infosys Consulting, was named CEO at Qualitest. Go deeper
• Amy Fenton was promoted from co-president to CEO at MarketCast. Go deeper
💊 Will Kane, former president and chief commercial officer at Anthos Therapeutics, was named CEO at Uniquity Bio, succeeding co-founder Brian Lortie. Go deeper
💊 Kirk Perry, current director at Kenvue (NYSE: KVUE), was appointed interim CEO, effective immediately. Go deeper
• Helena Helmersson, former CEO of the H&M Group, was appointed to the board of Spanish fashion brand Mango. Go deeper
• Grigori Melnik was named chief product officer at Amperity, a Seattle-based AI customer data cloud. Go deeper
• Melissa Montan, former SVP at HSBC Innovation Banking, was named VP of platform and marketing at March Capital. Go deeper
• Dan Whalen, former president and CEO at ATX Networks, was named CEO of Ketsen. Go deeper
• Brenda Hentschel joined Gregory FCA from CNBC, Bill Morgan joined from Fox Business and Emily Dattilo joined from Barron's. Go deeper
• Milan Bhatt, former president and global head of cloud, data and AI services at Hexaware Technologies, was named CEO at Nous Infosystems. Go deeper
• Mark Whyman, former head of private wealth distribution at Lafayette Square, was named managing director of private market solutions at InspereX. Go deeper
• Russell Jenkins, former managing partner at Maple Street Advisors, joined Stellex as operating partner. Go deeper
• Jacob Comer, formerly with Novaquest Capital Management, joined Seward & Kissel as a partner in the firm's investment management practice. Go deeper
